IMMIGRANTS SEIZED BY CITY AT LANDING
FEDERAL AID DENIED
Newcomers, Some Infested, Taken After Health Workers Are Barred From Inspection. RYNDAM PASSENGERS LET IN Copeland Resents Government's Action, but Continues His Campaign on Disease. NO NEW CASES REPORTED Companies Divert Steamships to Boston, Where Federal Force Is to Be Augmented. Ships Diverted to Boston. IMMIGRANTS SEIZED BY CITY AT LANDING Sterilizing Plants Ready. Calls Lists Unreliable. Every Voyage. Every Four Months. Every Six Months. WIDEN TYPHUS MEASURES. Government, Orders Strict Observance of Regulations Abroad.
A manifest lack of co-operation between immigration officials and the New York Department of Health developed yesterday, seriously embarrassing municipal efforts to bar out typhus and other infectious plagues, and permitting eight vermin-laden immigrants to land at the Battery.
The Osborne Company
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Osborne Art Calendars
Feb. 13, 1921
General Offices and Works
Newark, New Jersey
Penn Yan, New York
“Wait for the Osborne Man”
My darling Sue:
It is not quite dinner time so while waiting I’ll at least start a letter to my darling wife. Were you here today we would have a good visit and if I were at home we would all have a good visit. It seemed best to stay
out over this Sunday so I’m happy just the same for I know a little sweetheart o’mine for these twenty-five years is thinking of me and loving me this beautiful day, You may think it strange I didn’t go back to Geneva for the day, but at this time of the year I either want to be at home or by myself where I am free to do as I want to and don’t have to visit and then I took an order last evening. Our sales for the week were $1403 which keeps us on the old roller for one more week. Many of the men will begin to fall off the roller and I want to stay on just as long as possible, just for the fun of it and for the good it will do for the China set. Guess this is the first time I I’ve been foolish enough to ever mention this prize. If we don’t try we certainly can't win. When I reached this place yesterday I learned that Mr. Bordwell, the leading druggist of the town and about the most loyal customer I have on my whole list has been very ill since last spring and there is no hope for his recovery. He has a cancer of the rectum and other troubles. I went up to a florist, an old customer, last night, and ordered some carnations to be sent over to Mr. Bordwell.
I was late in getting into town yesterday so will have to spend all day tomorrow here and hope to get some business. I consider this the finest town of its size in New York State. Would be happy to live here if I had a good business. I have a very pleasant, large room here and I am going to spend whole afternoon reading and writing in my room. I attended a union service at the Baptist church tonight. We had a good sermon “If you do His will ye shall know these things”, a sermon to strengthen your faith in the fundamental things of religion.
I will write to Elizabeth this morning and may write to Marion this afternoon. I wish I could have been at home yesterday to help Frank draw the wood. I would have liked nothing better. Hate to see Dick and Dan [ John's horses] sold and hope they will go to some man who will be as kind to them as Lee has always been. Twenty years ago would have been a fine time for us to have started farming. Let’s try to feel that we are doing the best for all concerned in selling the farm. In talking with a real estate dealer here last night he tells me that there is no point in having a forfeiture. In case your man wants to back out of deal you would have to prove damage equal to forfeiture and in case of small forfeiture it would not amount to anything. So there you have it again. Almost every auction bill I see out here announces the time at 10 o’clock and lunch at noon. I think you had better have Clayton [John's brother-in-law] mention the fact that we will serve lunch at noon. We want the men there in the forenoon sure and a lunch will help to get them there before noon. I don’t believe there’s a doubt but that we will have to vacate the house in summer and so I wouldn’t advise selling too much furniture to replace at high prices, yet I’m willing to abide entirely by your judgement.
We have a two-year-old heifer at farm due to freshen very soon and I wish you would have Frank take a registration blank and draw off the markings and then you can fill it out and send in the paper for registration. Have forgotten heifer’s name but she was born Sep. 1918 and I think Sohoharie Pontrao appears in her name. If the calf is a bull, have Lewis sell it or kill it.
Keep me posted on things as you can. Please tell Ed Billings that in case I’m not home for that meeting that I would not accept the office again. Wish you would as over phone to have Mr. Williams make a report as treasurer so that we may know where we are financially. Ask Mr. Billings if he knows what price Mr. Crouch would be willing to pay for property.
It’s dinner time. Will I get my usual Valentine.
Your loving,
Jack
Editor's notes
John often comments about not feeling like visiting friends and relatives while he's out on the road. I must have inherited this as I remember when I was working and travelling a great deal feeling guilty when I flew into a city where an old friend or relative lived. I usually just wanted to get a good meal, call home and relax in the evening. It seems my great-grandfather felt the same.
From the New York Times headlines it seems the national policy and frictions about immigrants are running in parallel with today's news.
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John has excellent handwriting. However, in some instances, I cant decipher it. If I can't, I simply mark the spot with "xxx"s to signify thank the word isn't decipherable.
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